Thumbnails play the YouTube equivalent of a movie poster, aiming to draw your attention to click and watch when you have hundreds of videos clogging your recommended ...

Morey Haber, Chief Security Advisor at BeyondTrust, is an identity and technical evangelist with over 25 years of IT industry experience. One of the most prolific ways of making money on the internet ...

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In a move aimed at improving user experience, YouTube has said that it will crack down on videos with deceptive titles and thumbnails, in India. This effort aims to tackle what is commonly referred to ...

Did we grab your attention? Good! They’re all neat little clickbait headlines. Click. Bait. Click – because obviously you’re supposed to click on them. And bait – just like what a fisherman uses to ...

YouTube has said it will begin taking action against “egregious clickbait” in India by targeting videos whose titles and thumbnails do not match the video contents. YouTube gave some examples of ...

YouTube has announced that it will increase enforcement against videos where the title or thumbnail misleads viewers by promising content that “the video doesn’t deliver.” In a blog post released on ...

Have you ever found yourself clicking on irresistible headlines? Maybe even during work hours? The problem with clickbait According to a survey conducted a few years ago, surfing the Internet for ...

The company’s new strategy will be slowly rolled out in India over the coming months. Video platform YouTube will begin cracking down on “egregious clickbait content” over the coming months, its ...